Calorie Burning

Jump-roping is one of the best cardio vascular workouts you could ever do. It focuses on so many different part of your body. It helps to increase your agility, balance, coordination, and muscular endurance. It is also great for strengthening your upper body. One of the best things about jump-roping is that it can done anywhere. It can be done in a gym or outside a gym. Jump-roping may be the best calorie burning exercise ever. If you jump rope for an hour, depending on your metabolism, you can burn up to 1000 calories. Imagine that: being able to burn up to a 1000 calories in one workout.

Just yesterday I walked into a local market and saw a delivery man hauling in a load of wine on a hand truck and one of the employee's comment, "wow, that looks heavy!" His immediate response was, "yes but it's a great workout."

That got me thinking about how many daily or work activities we do that could actually be counted as exercise. There are caloric expenditure charts all over the internet that will tell you (according to your gender and weight) how many calories you'll burn doing a certain activity.

One thing that many people need to understand however is this. Let's say you are a bricklayer and you carry bricks all day long. Of course you are being active and your body has to become efficient at that activity and you will get a certain amount of "exercise" from that effort. The point you need to understand is that the human body will only rise to the level of demand that is being placed on it. In other words, after 6 weeks or so of doing that same activity the human body will develop a sort of "tolerance" for that activity and no longer be challenged. This is why we as personal trainers suggest that you change your workout routine every six to eight weeks or so.